New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-19
WALTER e. Ia WTON'S FLIGHT
AND RUIN BEHIND HIM

xopp .rr.ruurNrs AGAINST Ills PROPERTY -
WAITING TO GET AT THE BOOKS.
Nearly every one directly interested In waiter L. Law
toms financial felt sick yesterday kuIus
Kirkland who had Endorsed Lawtons notes TOT S4o'ooo'
and who had seen MIN of at the Grand Central etauoh
with the boodle in his pocket was almost 100 ia 10 10
In town He looked haggard and worn' YET he hao "
rush point to point in apparent zeal 10 se' ou
something Mr.. Kirkland. who was Lawton cashier "u
IA also president Of the Chemical Ammoniate ana Ou
Compspy I'm which Lawton o director, passed much
of the day with Abram King the lawyer who has got out
attachments for 1925. 900 Lawtons property. The
result was that the afternoon Mr. King too looked
sick and wild. This is what he said, with look OF
despair:
There sC1s 9TH ap hfw am nsSs
Gs the ssssh tc $500 don't know how much
Is worth from 100000 600 The house and land At
HpsE Ss bad
time TO look iO the record. OF the ssp and out
mat K5kspd is rT Hn s snd to ha s
any more please. my head will burst
Joseph D. Jones, the president OF the Delta Azonn
Company which got an attachment for sloo'ooo' was
encountered in the hallway of No. IS Broad-s ~pere
Mr. Kirkland has his Office. Said he
haven't seen Mr. Kirkland to-day. can't fnd him: ne
at his Office No. there's nothing new ySts
day We shan know ANYTHING until We gel al 'ho 000A'
and then may not learn much
Mr. Kirkland not in his Office all day. Ihefe was
on the fact that had accompanied LAYTON 10
the Grand Central Tuesday aud let him of with the
funds in his possession. Mr. Kirkland mad no idea oi
the condition OF affairs them" explained MI king DO
Won ,uppo.e when he was Iawons paper for 10000
he would have let him like that II ne mad known any
thing of the condition OF affairs kir&and Is soA man.
Lawton visited the National Bank of Commerce on
Tuesday and drew $1,000 or $4,000 on paper "nIcn
proved to be worth nothing He performed 'ne uAu'
Lamb Joined P ,t tel ard
State in Robert A. Van Wycks attachment SUIT ior @uo
for legal services Mr. Kirkland did not WISH the oce
An old gentleman with account with the NA'assa
Company which Lawton was president tried 70 get
chance TO look at the books OF that corporation put as e
The books said TO be mnated and ID such coiui
ton that they will be of little service when Opened IL Is
expected receiver of the property Will soon DC up
| pointed. 81. .ou,, from, thu Auercan
Exchange National Bank and OF his $4,000 pane e
there is good aud some bad Lawton mao so,ie
oi paper b ,nT or 600 drawn by Iawton
the United States National BANK came nstous s '
Clearing House on Thursday Du' IL was ieeoeu' GO
A man who has been in the fertilizins business FOR
years called attention yesterday TO the Tact that Jones
and Kirkland both close friends and business repre-
sentaves OF Lawion and they were the first 10 get ou
was the principal stakeholder in the Actin and the Am
moniae companies. of which Jones and Kirkland were
respectIyey presidents Jones had been chiefly employed
IN placing Lawton's paper, and Kirkland had been Lay"
TONS confidential secretary and his cashier .,,on..
More attachments nave peeh sraileu asi"'' H'"'o"'
property as follows:
One by Donohue at the suit OF the Long Island
Pressing company, whose pte-uen'' Il.iS
were given 10 be discounted and that he az
uropriaed by Justice Patterson on ca N
OF e National Bank Of this city ior t3Il va beoIs,
uf bank. ailaaNlt says hat
Tnesfay Iawion had deposit IN the bank. winch
during that day increased 10 SIS l22 ob 10y depons De
ma nd draft on Potter Lowell Co. OF Boston io 50 100
check on Exchange Bank for SOol Oo ohees
on the ned National Bank for 5000 creek on
fhe National Bank OF Commerce for $1,000; check on we
Commercial aonal Bank for $4,000 and another check oi
81 OnO After these placed TO his credit he ore" OUT
81 coo 1he asserts ;at OF these des ONLY ir
81 600 check ana $3Obl 90 on the German fhoase
good. The raft on Potter ioteh q -" Mas 30
checks lack 10
tioua bank nv the that they drawn On He ur
tler saws that Chemical .mmOniate ana Oh company;
will be compelled 10 suspend and
that the appointment OF receiver VIII be asked Tor lhe
third attachment granted by Justice Patterson on the ap
pcation The Commercial National Bank whose presch,
Orson Adams affidavit stating that Law toh owes o
mstiuon 80 G63 81 moneys laid out aud expended al
there oil Lawton"